slothmister wrote:Ye I am aware of this, however I have both mp3 and ogg as my source files. So this does not help me.

It explains why chrome plays the audio but firefox not if the ogg files are missing.

slothmister wrote:Been looking into it and looks like firefox might not support the <audio> tag all on its own (ie needs more to get it to work) but if that is the case then why does the w3cschools player work fine??